Three Different Controllers Can Be Used Simultaneously On Wii U Multiplayer Games

Madden NFL 13 is a Wii U launch title and will include local cooperative play, in which up to five players can play simultaneously. Gamers who play multiplayer Wii U games can choose among three different controllers – the Wii U GamePad, Wii Remote plus Nunchuk combination, and the Wii U Pro Controller. Which controller will be your preference, when playing a multiplayer game?

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Great news. More people playing together a video game brings more fun in the experience of playing a game. About the question. I would rather use a Wii U Pro Controller. The GamePad it’s nice, but me as a gamer who started the journey of gaming in the SNES era, I would go with more traditional controller.

Just to clarify. Just because I will be using a Classic Controller Pro more , that doesn’t mean I will not try the GamePad as well. I will use the GamePad with Rayman Legends, because I liked the idea of putting Rabbids at the touch screen of the GamePad. If I remember correctly you could also put an action figure of Ezio from Assassin’s Creed.

Agreed for every wii u game I buy I will try out the gamepad first because a. I want to challenge myself, get out of my comfort zone into somethin I’m familiar with (using DS). And b. kinda tired of the same routine for every game, if the function of the secondary screen is diff per game then it will always provide new ways to do things

Seeing as it would be my Wii U, I would have to play with the GamePad, but if I was at a friends house (if any of them buy a Wii U that is) I would probably use Wii U pro controller….. but I wont be playing Madden.

Both of them are wonderful controllers. One it’s a nice big controller with a touch screen that can make a game deeper and the other it’s a traditional controller that suits better gamers that don’t like the idea of the GamePad.

I hope developers remember that even the gamepad is only optional, and they have a wide variety of controll schemes. I wasnt going to by a pro till Smash Bros, but i might presuded, depends how much difference the gamepad makes.

agreed, if they seriously release medal of honor or bf4 on the wiiu, i would definately pick it up for it instead of the pc if they added wii remote support, or even gyroscope aiming with the wiiu gamepad. i love the gyro aiming on the 3ds, just using that on an fps would be awesome, tiring, but awesome.

If developers worked hard, they could use the gamepads gyro as a way to aim. I think people would be all over that, Zelda SS worked great with the gyro, you didnt have to point it directecly at the screen, it was much more smooth and accurate as well.

I wish I could use a new Wavebird of some sort… but for now I’ll just settle for GamePad and Pro Controller. Hopefully the buttons on the Pro Controller aren’t uncomfortable to use as they look. Otherwise I have no problem using an Xbox-esque controller… even as a Nintendo/PS3 gamer.

Quite frankly, this wasn’t the best picture to use for this story. Putting a Gamepad next to 2 wiimotes, it gives the impression that only 3 controllers could be used at a time (which is of course not the case).

we already knew we would be able to do this, but its nice to know we have game ware we know we can do it, a-cemeterc indeed, not just with gamepad and remote, but also with pro, or what im going to call it “core controller” and I hope their well be games (and i dont see why not) that use remote and core. and some games ware the gamepad is just sits on the coffee table as a second screen for 4 players to glance at

they should have changed the names of things, I understand that the wii remote, though I think it should soon be called “n-remote”, then the ” “pro controller” is confusing I think that PRO should be used for the more complex player, thus should have the more complicated controller, so its odd it wouldn’t have a screen, camera, motion controls.
then gamepad is silly because it makes it seam simple.
the pro should be called core, as its basic but for core players.
gamepad, should be called like S-controller (s for screen) or something